Collar.



G. W. T. DAVIES.

COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1910.

1,088,808. I Patented Mar. 3, 19M

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COLUMIUA PLANOURAPII CO.,WAS|HNCITON. D- C.

CHARLES W. 'I. DAVIES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application filed May 25, 1910. Serial No. 563,429.

7 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES \V. T. DAVIES, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has for its object an improvement in the nrethod of attaching collars to shirts designed to render that operation less complicated and more effective. Its special aim is to facilitate the closure of the second or overlapping collar end by eliminating the buttonhole and substituting in place thereof improved means for holding the second or overlapping collar end to the underlying collar end. This object is carried out through the agency of a tab, either attached to or continuous of the lower edge of the overlapping collar end tab to engage a notch in the underlying or secured collar end, the tabbed end having a cutout portionwhich is adapted to avoid locking contact with the front collar button. The other shirt-securing collar end may be provided with any of the known means for attaching it to the shirt.

The invention applies to collars of any known type, of composite material, as well as of fabric.

The drawing is a view of the closure of a double collar with the front folds turned up and the collar ends separated.

The invention is shown as applied to a double collar 1. The flap 9. has the buttonhole 3 and besides being as ordinarily constructed, is provided with a notch 9 in its lower edge. On the overlapping flap at is a tab 8 extending more or less vertically downward from its lower edge, said tab being situated and adapted for insertion in the notch 9 and beneath the lower edge of the other collar end 2, to be held there by compression between the shirt and collar when the end 2 is fastened over the stud. The outer or overlying flap 4 is provided with a cut-out 5 designed to leave room for Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

the collar stud to protrude freely therethrough without locking engagement there with and affords means for the fixing thereto of shield neckties when necessary. When the collar is made of linen or other fabric, the tab 8 may be provided with stitching, as shown by dotted lines, to serve as a guide for the laundry and used in bending the tab upward. IV hen, however, the collar is made of composite material, the tab would be permanently bent upward along the said line of stitching. In all cases the tab 8, socalled, may be attached separately or be integrally continuous of the collar end. It may assume any angle or direction toward the collar end suited to its purpose, and may constitute any portion of the band end which can be utilized for the purposes set forth without distorting the designed set of the collar ends at their upper and lower edges. It may be made of thinner or thicker ply than other parts of the collar with regard to the flexibility or stiilness required either in part or in whole.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A collar provided with means for attachment to a shirt at the back and at the front by one fore end only, said fore end having a notch in its lower edge the other fore end having a portion cut out so as to avoid locking contact with the shank of a front collar stud when fastened in place, and provided with a tab projecting downwardly from its lower edge constructed, positioned and adapted to be passed up beneath the lower edge of the first named fore end and adapted to engage with the recess cut out of the lower edge of said band end.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. T. DAVIES.

Witnesses Geo. L. ConwIN, EDWARD MUSSNER.

Washington, D. G. 

